SKD & Wapping election candidate – Kirsty Finlayson, Conservatives

What’s your name?

Kirsty Finlayson

Kirsty Finlayson, Conservatives

What do you do for a living?

Solicitor

Where do you live?

Wapping Wall

What is your involvement with the SKD & Wapping community?

I’ve championed campaigns to prevent cuts to the 100 bus service and increase the number of CCTV cameras. I write regularly to TfL, the Mayor of London and the Council regarding transport, traffic and anti-social behaviour and I’m working with company events teams to address issues surrounding noise and anti-social behaviour during large events.

Having lived in four local apartment blocks, I regularly use our ward’s amenities. I attend a local gym before work and at weekends I run along the Thames Path before enjoying a coffee with my paper at St Katharine Docks. I value our village-style community.

Why should we vote for you? What difference will you make to SKD & Wapping?

I will prioritise Communication between the Council and residents so that the latter are informed and consulted on issues such as the Half Marathon ‘lock-in,’ out of action Overground lifts, and major events at Tobacco Dock.

Caring for residents: Labour call me anti-European. Not so! I used to work in the European Youth Parliament and will work for all residents, whatever their nationality.

Tower Hamlets has some of the worst child poverty in Europe. How would you and your party tackle it?

If I am elected, my focus on child poverty would centre on decisions of the Council in St Katharine’s & Wapping affecting local schools and community centres.

Councillor Dockerill campaigned for better school provision by pushing for greater Council transparency over the London Dock school site and over new free schools across the borough. I attended a consultation back in November 2017 where I raised residents’ concerns about the school potentially being single sex, and its proximity to a dangerous and polluted TfL road.